By Rabbi Yoel Kahn, PhD, DD, Congregation Beth El, Berkeley, CA June 11, 2016 This week’s Torah portion begins with precision in time and vagueness in geography. We begin reading this week from the fourth book of the Torah, parshat Bamidbar: The Eternal spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, […]
Dvar Torah Bamidbar
The day you were born was the day God decided the universe could no longer exist without you. -Rebbe Nachman of Bretzlav This week as the weather warms and we make our way into summer, we also begin a new book of the Torah, Bamidbar, the Book of Numbers. Far from the family stories Genesis, […]
Dvar Torah Behukotai
3 czerwca 2016/26 ijar 5776 – This week’s Torah portion begins with a familiar reminder of the Biblical understanding of faith and practice, “If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will give your rains in their time, the land will yield its produce, and the tree of the field will give […]
Emor
By Rabbi Alan Iser 20 May 2016/ 12 Iyar 5776 – Sometimes, the most significant concepts in Judaism are hidden in seemingly insignificant passages in the Torah. In this week’s Torah portion, Emor, at the end of a section dealing with the characteristics of which animals are acceptable for sacrifices, we learn of two very […]
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